What Delilah Did

Pearl Lowe's Vintage Home + Exciting News!

Afternoon all!

I would like to begin by saying a tremendous thank you to all of you for the many, many orders that have helped me to purchase the shiny new laptop that I am currently writing this post on... I have been completely bowled over by the reaction and cannot tell you what a help it has been in this less-than-desirable technology-induced ordeal. You are all incredible!

So back to business: have you seen Pearl Lowe's new blog? I was delighted to be able to work with them on an upcoming project and they have written a lovely post about me here. The project itself is a secret at the moment (yes, another one - sorry!) but I promise to tell you more when I can.

And on the subject of secrets, I can finally divulge arguably the biggest of them all...

My first book will be published next year!!!

Exciting, no?! It is the reason things have been so quiet around here for the last few months and it has been just about killing me to keep it a secret, so I am beyond relieved to be able to tell you all at last. I have been locked away working on a What Delilah Did book for Collins & Brown since Christmas and although the release date is an awfully long way off, I hope it will be worth the wait. I can't say any more until nearer the time, but hopefully it will be something to look forward to! I still have another month or so to work on it, but after that I should be in a position to make lots of new patterns and lovely things for the shop, which I am really looking forward to.

Anyway, I suppose I had better get back to it...

Delilah x

Libellule - The Dragonfly

Evening all!

The new issue of CrossStitcher Magazine went on sale today (the one with my pattern in) which means that I finally get to share it with you properly, hurrah! So for those of you that have not already seen the pattern, may I introduce Libellule - the dragonfly. I hope you will all agree with me that she sure is mighty fine! I have named her Libellule (which is French for dragonfly) because I stitched her under the shade of a tree when I was in the South of France in September and I just think it is such a pretty word.

CrossStitcher made a gold version and they did such a beautiful job, I really am thrilled with it:

         

You can see a preview of my pattern and some of the others in the issue here, and they did a lovely blog post on my work here too.

The issue is on sale now so you can stitch one for your very own - what are you waiting for?!

And if you live in some far flung exotic location and cannot get your hands on a copy, the pattern is now in the shop too.

I hope you like it. I have more to show you soon... I am stitching as fast as I can!

Toodle pip,

Delilah x

Cross Stitcher Interview

Afternoon all!

I never got to tell you about this lovely interview Harriet from Cross Stitcher magazine wrote up about me. I know a number of you have already seen/read it as you have written to tell me so, but for those of you that haven't, if you click on the photo at the bottom of this post you should just about be able to read it. And I believe you can still get hold of a copy here should you so wish (December 2011, Issue 247). It is the purple one that looks like this:

I have also designed a pattern for the February issue, which I have been keeping under wraps for what feels like forever - I cannot wait for it to go on sale at the end of this month so that I can finally share it with you! Though the eagle-eyed among you may have already noticed it in a couple of not-so-well-hidden places...

Delilah x

London

Hello there! It has been a very busy summer and I believe I have some catching up to do...starting with London.

I finally made it down to Liberty where my hoop display is now up (rather later than planned) - hurrah! It was very difficult to get a decent picture, but hopefully you can get the idea. Not so happy-making however is that somebody already appeared to have stolen one of the hoops! I would have thought that cross stitch fans and thieves were rather at odds with one another but apparently not...

It was quite exciting to see my work on sale in what I consider to be the most beautiful shop in the world. A big goal ticked off. I have to say it stuck out like a sore thumb, but I am reliably informed this is a good thing. And the kits are selling really well, so a very big thank you to everybody that has already bought one.

All that wood panelling just kills me! Sigh.

Back soon,

Delilah x

!!! LIBERTY !!!

So this was the Very Big Thing...LIBERTY!

My favourite shop in all the land, AKA Liberty in London Town, is now stocking What Delilah Did - hurrah!

The kits are available there as of this week so if you find yourself in that neck of the woods I defy you not to visit: Haberdashery Department, Third Floor. Whoop!

The opportunity I was talking about before was that I attended the Liberty Best of British Open Call in April. I was terrified, but as you can see I got through, and two months later here we are! I am a very, very, very happy lady.

All the samples I stitched are going up in a special display in the next couple of weeks and I cannot wait to see it all finished. I will be taking a trip down to London to see it when it is ready and intend to take lots of pictures to show you.

Hurrah hurrah!

Delilah x

25% Off...Just Because

 

I find that the best presents are those that are given 'just because'. The unexpected sort that take you by surprise and make you smile all the more because of it. And so in that ilk I thought I would give you all 25% off everything in my shop this week, just because. A small thank you for being here.

Simply enter "JUSTBECAUSE" in the discount code box when you check out. The code will be valid until Tuesday 29th March.

Enjoy!

Delilah x

Picture courtesy of Martha Stewart from here.

Feeling Stitchy Discount

 
Hop over to Feeling Stitchy blog for a little something nice...

Delilah x

Competition!

 

Jamie, aka Mr X Stitch, is running a competition to win one of my new cross stitch kits. Hop over here if you would like to enter...but you better get your skates on! The closing date for entries is this Friday 7th January.

Good luck!

Delilah x

Playing Shop

So the moment has arrived when I finally get to show you what it is that has kept me so busy all this time...

This was my display at the fair and I have to say that I was just so, so, so in love with it. It was such a lot of work as I have never done anything like it before and had to start from scratch, but to see everything come together at the end made it all so very worthwhile. And the little flags just topped it off perfectly - I heart them so much it actually hurts a little bit!

I was amazed at what I was able to beg, borrow and steal for my display (a huge thank you to everyone that helped) - it really is quite remarkable the things you can magic into existence with when you put your mind to it. And I had the great pleasure of meeting some extremely nice people, a number of whom were kind enough to part with their money to buy my things which was really rather exciting!

Anyway, now for the pictures. The quality is not great I'm afraid as the lighting situation is just abysmal at the moment, but I did the best I could...

 

 

 

 

 

 

You do not be particularly eagle-eyed to notice that I have finally gotten around to making up some cross stitch kits - 'hurrah!' I hear you cry! About time too. They went down a treat and I hope to have them in the shop at some point this week so I will tell you all about them when that special time comes.

That's the lot for now as I really must sleep, but I promise I will be back very soon with lots more to show you...until then,

Toodle pip!

Delilah x

Phew!

 

I am back from Clutter City and absolutely exhausted! I'm now off to enjoy a nice roasted chicken for lunch as a well-earned treat but I will be back later with lots more pictures to bore you with...

Delilah x